Is SwiftUI pretty much the same in this regard? I’ve only taken time to do the trivial examples in either Compose or SwiftUI, but they feel very similar, so I’m wondering if your prognosis also applies to SwiftUI.
I think the Swift compiler does less magic for SwiftUI. They added a new literal syntax for the UI view tree literals, but other than that I believe the behavior is in the runtime. SwiftUI expects you to use Combine, Apple’s (F)RP system, to a greater extent than Compose expects you to use RxJava/Kotlin Flow. My impression is that Compose is more React-y and is actually an escape from RxJava FRP-land; I can translate most hooks to Compose after reading the Compose docs a few times but find it much harder to do the same with SwiftUI/Combine.
Personally I prefer Compose because it’s open-source (so you can figure out how it works if you need to), has much better docs, and seems less welded to FRP stuff which I don’t enjoy. I don’t really have enough experience to really review either though.
